wage floors造句

• France has the rich world s highest wage floor, at more than 60 % of the median for adults and a far bigger fraction of the typical wage for the young.
• Clinton will not have to wait for a reaction; key Republican lawmakers emerged from a White House meeting Monday morning to declare themselves deadset against raising the government-set wage floor.
• To Berman's glee, the check seemed to indicate that the conventional wisdom was right, after all : Employment grew less fast in New Jersey after it raised its wage floor.
• Democrats had labeled those provisions unfair to workers, especially a plan to freeze the wage floor for waiters and waitresses, who also earn tips, at $ 2.13 an hour.
• The Senate-passed minimum wage bill calls for a $ 1 per hour increase in the current wage floor of $ 5 . l5 per hour, to be phased in through March 2002.
• Citing their work, Labor Secretary Robert Reich contends that a small boost in the wage floor won't have a " negative effect on the economy " and may actually increase employment.
• "' 1996 "': Government fixed the national minimum wage floor at INR 35 / day as per the recommendations of NCRL . Since 2009 it stands at INR 100 / day.
• Democrats think it's a perfect symbol to contrast their concern for the common folk with the insensitivity of Republicans, many of whom oppose not only any increase but the very concept of a wage floor.
• The Rev . Bill Cunningham, who runs Focus Hope, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the poor in Detroit, said that society should pay more attention to training workers than to setting a wage floor.
• Despite the pay increase recommended by the committee, the students who occupied Massachusetts Hall last spring said the committee snubbed them by not recommending a wage floor _ and they vowed a new round of campus protests.
• The White House decided to seek compromise with GOP congressional leaders rather than formally submit the 75 cent boost in the wage floor for 2.5 million Americans that administration officials had outlined before Clinton's address.
• In 2000, the campaign succeeded in persuading university administrators to raise the wage floor from $ 6.10 to $ 8.19; however, this wage only applied to direct employees, not contracted workers.
• The 106th Congress, which is still in a lame-duck session, may push through a $ 1 increase in the $ 5.15 wage floor, but Bush would likely protest any further increases as a job killer.
• Confronting President George W . Bush's proposal to let states decide minimum wage levels, congressional Democrats have filed a bill that would increase the wage floor nationwide to $ 6.65 an hour by the end of 2003.
• The defining feature that differentiates the independent Living Wage rates from the statutory wage floors is that they are based on analysis of the specific goods and services that employees and their families need to meet a minimum acceptable standard of living.
• "Unless you establish a much broader base, one that reflects all the public spending, then the wage floor will stay at $ 4.25 an hour, " said Jonathan Lange, an organizer with the foundation.
• In lieu of a wage floor, the 19-member committee of administrators, professors, students, and workers called for Harvard to establish a " parity wage policy " that would guarantee subcontracted employees the same minimum wage as union members.
• Al Gore and Richard Gephardt ( who calls it " a metaphor for the differences " between the parties ) want to raise the wage, whose buying power is slipping mercilessly, while Dick Armey, House majority leader, wants to scrap the wage floor entirely.
• The president's plan to seek a 75 cent increase in the minimum wage to push the wage floor to $ 5 an hour " fits with a consistent theme that this president has articulated-- that working families . . . need to get a break,"